furfurとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːfə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝfɚ/

名詞

furfur (usually uncountable, 複数形 furfures)

1. (archaic, countable) a particle of dandruff
2. (archaic, uncountable) dandruff
   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:

     ‘Aye,’ said WS, still in bed, scratching his baldness, examining the furfur in his fingernails.

アナグラム

• furrfu

Latin

語源

Unknown. Traditionally explained as from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”), however as De Vaan notes the vowel /u/ would be unexplained; a preform *gʰur- ~ *ǵʰur- would be expected instead, but no such root exists.^[1] Compare Ancient Greek κέγχρος (kénkhros) and κάχρυς (kákhrus), which also relate to grains.

Alternatively, cognate with Sanskrit बुस (busa, “chaff, refuse grain; rubbish”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰus-.^[2] In either of these cases, from a reduplicated root.

Given the word's unusual form in the absence of a solid Indo-European explanation, borrowing from some unknown, perhaps substrate, source is likely.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.fur/, [ˈfʊrfʊr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.fur/, [ˈfurfur]

名詞

furfur m (genitive furfuris); third declension

1. bran, husks of grain, chaff
2. scaly infection of the skin

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• furfurāceus
• furfurāculum
• furfurārius
• furfureus
• furfuriō
• furfurōsus

派生した語

• Italian: forfora, forforo (Lucchese)
• Old French: fourfre
• Piedmontese: forfa, fòrfora
• Sardinian: frùffere, fùffere, fùrfaru
• → Catalan: fúrfur
• → English: furfur ⇒ furfuraceous
• → French: furfures

参照

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), “crusca”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fŭrfŭr”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 895

Further reading

• “furfur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• furfur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette